<div dir="ltr">Hi Steve,<div><br></div><div>A similar discussion occurred as recently as Sep 2012 but my review of that suggests no absolute resolution occurred. I'd suggest having a read (you might have already) as its an indicator of the due diligence applied to externally sourced data(sets).</div>
<div><a href="http://openstreetmap-australia.2291470.n4.nabble.com/talk-au-suburb-boundaries-td4641332.html">http://openstreetmap-australia.2291470.n4.nabble.com/talk-au-suburb-boundaries-td4641332.html</a><br></div><div>
<br></div><div>Setting aside the points made in that linked discussion and to address your question directly. The data is available over at <a href="http://data.qld.gov.au">data.qld.gov.au</a> right now (Search for "Locality boundaries - Queensland")</div>
<div><br></div><div>All data from the qld site is shared under a Creative Commons (<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">CC-BY-3.0 AU)</span> licence but as I understand it this is at odds (or is at risk of being at odds) with the Open Database Licence Compliant (ODbL) You might have spotted my earlier introduction to Talk-au where I note that I have requested explicit permission to use the data from this source. See: <a href="http://openstreetmap-australia.2291470.n4.nabble.com/talk-au-data-qld-gov-au-explicit-permission-request-td4642067.html">http://openstreetmap-australia.2291470.n4.nabble.com/talk-au-data-qld-gov-au-explicit-permission-request-td4642067.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Not much in the way of outcomes for you but hopefully a little more context for further consideration.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Jason</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 November 2013 23:01, Steve Dalton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@refactor.com.au" target="_blank">steve@refactor.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi All<br>
<br>
Finally found the AU OSM list!<br>
<br>
I'm currently doing a bit of work with OSM for a client and I've<br>
stumbled on a problem I had some time ago. Gold Coast suburbs are<br>
completely wrong!<br>
<br>
I'm pretty new to OSM - so forgive my ignorance here, but from what I<br>
can see the administrative boundary for suburb is just set from a<br>
point and it just calculates your suburb from the nearest<br>
administrative point. So I live in Parkwood (no point has been set for<br>
this), my street comes up as Nerang and the street next to me comes up<br>
as Helensvale!<br>
<br>
If I was to get hold of proper suburb boundaries from the council - is<br>
there any way to even enter it? I can't quite see how. Has anyone in<br>
other cities done this? I did see some reference to Adelaide in the<br>
list archives but as I've not done a lot of geospatial work some of<br>
the terms and formats were new to me.<br>
<br>
There is quite a bit of support for Open Data at the moment in Gold<br>
Coast City council, so would appreciate any advice from other<br>
contributors on the best format for data, best way to get this data<br>
into OSM (if possible) and how best to work with the council.<br>
<br>
I would really like to encourage OSM usage more in my local area - but<br>
with a fundamental problem like this - it's a bit embarrassing. My<br>
general response to things like this is to use RMS's words "We can fix<br>
that!" but I'm a little stumped here on how to go about it, so any<br>
help appreciated.<br>
<br>
Many thanks<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Steve<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Cheers,<div><br></div><div>Jason</div><div>M: 0438740049</div></div>
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